Ewan McIntosh

Founder & CEO

Leading projects around the world for clients in education and industry, and a pioneer of design thinking for learning in the classroom, Ewan is the passionate and energising tour de force behind NoTosh. He’s a highly-regarded keynote speaker and host at events around the world, marrying intense prep work and a natural capacity to listen and shine a light on the best stories participants have to share.

"As a French and German high school teacher in Scotland, I wanted to find new ways to help students engage with my subjects – I felt strongly that technology was both critical to achieving this and remained underused in the classroom, so my classes were among the first in Europe to podcast and blog as part of their daily learning.

"I spent three years taking these ideas to schools around Scotland, as National Advisor on Learning and Technology Futures for the Scottish Government. Joining Channel 4 as their Digital Commissioner in 2008 was a step in a different direction. But it was while I was with Channel 4 that I became fascinated by the strategies and tactics that my creative colleagues used to create imaginative and truly engaging digital services for young people. Could I take this insight and make it work in an education setting? Yes, I reckoned I could... and that’s how NoTosh came about."

Chantelle Love

Associate, Phnom Penh

Chantelle knows what it takes to build a great team! A former lieutenant in the Army Reserve, television presenter, a primary school teacher and one of Australia’s best-known faces in learning innovation, she firmly believes in putting the interests of the child at the centre of the classroom and the interests of the customer at the centre of business.

Having moved away from teaching to work in the television and film industry, when Chantelle felt the pull of the classroom once again, she came back with a fresh perspective and a rekindled passion to make as much of a difference as possible.

“The move back into education taught me that you need passion to sustain what you do, otherwise your love for it will diminish. But how do we instill that passion in everyone who we work, learn and play with? I firmly believe that empathy – learning to see the world from their perspective – is the key. Helping people to create agile learning environments in which teachers have the freedom to experiment with technology and the curriculum, and where people have fun in their approach to learning is vital.”

Chantelle was a Senior Consultant with NoTosh for five years before once more returning to the classroom in Cambodia. She remains on hand to offer guidance to NoTosh's clients around the world.

Dr. Jeremy Weinstein

Senior Consultant, Melbourne

Dr. Jeremy Weinstein is a born and raised Melburnian, a city he is still proud to call home. Originally trained as a mechanical engineer, Jeremy’s career has seen him take on a wide range of different roles and challenges.

After a decade as a filmmaker, a career in which he won a number of high profile awards, Jeremy was eager to deeply explore his passion for media and communications and went on to complete his Ph.D. in this field.

With a wealth of experience across industry, coupled with the familiarity of teaching at university, Jeremy brings his depth of knowledge, ideas, and connections into the global NoTosh team and to our clients. Keen to find and solve problems, identify areas for growth and shift mindsets across both business and education, Jeremy joins the Australian-based NoTosh team with big goals.

“Working with NoTosh offers such a wonderful opportunity to not only do something that is creative but also immensely valuable. The face of training, development, and education is changing drastically, and will continue to over the next decade - especially as technology progresses - which provides a wonderful opportunity for me to work with teams as they look to embrace these ongoing changes while ensuring they remain true to their values and humanity.”

Carolyn Syme

Global Operations Manager, Edinburgh

Carolyn uses her almost superhuman logistical skills to make sure that we, and our clients, deliver exactly what we promise, every day on every project. She is instrumental in developing new services and ensures that every NoTosh client has a brilliant and rewarding journey with us. Her passion is language and communication.

“I’ve been lucky enough to work with developing technology and digital channels since the days we used to call it ‘new media’! Working with BBC Scotland in 2001, I developed web-based learning resources that opened doors to material that was previously unavailable to students. This led to a hugely innovative project involving groups of children with special needs who struggled to communicate. Working closely with specialists, we created a free online resource that allowed those children – many of whom were non-verbal – to express their thoughts and feelings, giving them a new-found sense of connection and equality.

"After a spell as Project Manager for Gecko, a leading digital consultancy, I returned to BBC Scotland Learning as part of their Bitesize Infographics team before joining NoTosh in 2016. You could say that my career has developed as the digital age has unfolded and my focus today is on ensuring that our digital landscape continues to open up spaces of equality, creativity, and innovation, for learners of all ages, through exciting resources and materials.”

Tim Logan

Associate Project Director, Bordeaux

Tim is an experienced educational leader and curriculum designer, an outstanding communicator, connector and facilitator.

Tim employs agile and lean project management with NoTosh’s array of human-centred design tools so that projects move from innovative learning design to executing ideas on the ground, swiftly. He has worked extensively with schools and education groups in the Middle East, Africa and Europe and designed curricula within a variety of frameworks – IB, UK, Cambridge, American, French, German. He is the host of the hugely popular Future Learning Design Podcast.

Brad Carter

Associate Curriculum Lead, Tokyo

Brad has spent 20 years exploring the impact of technology on the way we think about education, developing people and curriculum.

He has worked as leadership development executive with Apple, Inc, and before that as Head of School of the innovative THINK Global School. His work has taken him across Europe, Australia, China, and North America. A highly creative thinker with a talent for finding clarity in complexity, he brings his global expertise to innovative curriculum building and a deep study of the learning process.

Gerry Farrell

Creative Consultant, Edinburgh

One of Britain’s most acclaimed Creative Directors and award-winning copywriter, Gerry Farrell works with NoTosh to help education clients create work that works: visions that inspire, strategies that engage. He’s won most of the creative awards there are to win, including Cannes Lions and D&AD and has regularly served on D&AD and Cannes awards juries.

Gerry helped to found The Leith Agency, an Edinburgh-based creative communications agency with a global reputation. He worked there for 30 years as a copywriter and creative director fulfilling his ambition to make Leith a magnet for some of the most talented and capable writers, designers and art directors in the UK.

Those who are lucky enough to work with Gerry are never the same afterward: The Macallan Whisky marketing director Glen Gribbon: “He tailors what he does to your exact needs and puts so much heart and energy into the delivery. He pushes the group hard. A great creative, but also an inspirational coach.”

“I first met Gerry in the late 80s. He was one of a number of smart copywriters emerging out of the Scottish advertising scene. I've watched his career blossom over the years and tried to hire him for BBH. Sadly for us, but thankfully for Edinburgh, he stayed at Leith.”

*Sir John Hegarty, founder of BBH*

Lise Galuga

Consultant, Belgium

A former classroom teacher, Lise Galuga has spent the last 9 years working as a education and technology coach in North America, and is now based in Belgium. An engineer by training, but a teacher by nature, her work over the past decade has provided a model of how to harness new technologies that strengthen a teacher’s existing skills and increase student engagement.

In addition to being an Associate Consultant for NoTosh, Lise is Google Geo Education Outreach Program’s Region Lead (Europe), helping to build and support the new Geo Teachers Education Network (GETN). Before joining NoTosh, she was a standout participant in our design thinking work, changing schools’ approach to innovation across schools in French-speaking Canada.

Lise is a Google for Education Certified Innovator and a Google for Education Certified Trainer. She has led countless professional development sessions for a variety of audiences including leaders, principals, teachers, parents and students. She leads the Ontario Google Educator Group and presents on behalf of Google at international conferences such as ISTE, and participates in Googley ventures such as the Google Geo Teachers Institute in Mountain View and the Chicago-based National Geographic - Google Hackathon.

Athole McLauchlan

Associate Consultant, Brussels

Athole understands the complex nature of daily life in schools, and helps practitioners navigate the choices they can take to improve the lives of young people.

He has worked at a national advisory level as a skilled practitioner in digital literacy in his native Scotland, and as an international educator working in China and Belgium. He understands the complexities of the education system and appreciates the challenging interplay between politics, policy, people and pedagogy. But his purpose and philosophy for education remain steadfast: finding support, passions, experiences and pathways to help all young people flourish.

"After a life-changing six months of teaching English and British culture to students in an urban primary school in Germany, I chose to become a primary teacher. When I left, my students knew many new songs and games and were internationally renowned experts on the Loch Ness Monster and afternoon tea parties.

"I was motivated to make a difference in young people's lives through teaching for social justice, inclusion and supporting young people to be the best they can be. Over twenty years later, I am just as passionate about amplifying student agency and ambition."

Jacques Cool

Associate Partner, Montreal

A native of New Brunswick, and a proud Acadian, Jacques Cool is the Director of Cadre21, our Associate Partner organization in Quebec, Canada. Jacques has been involved in education for over 30 years and has gained a great wealth of experience and knowledge, working both in and outside of the classroom. Initially, a high school teacher, Jacques’ career has seen him take on a number of different roles. After five years in the classroom, he went on to join the Department of Education in New Brunswick where, over 25 years, he spent time as an assessment specialist in science and curriculum development coordinator, among others.

In 2001, Jacques was instrumental in bringing online learning to high school classrooms across the local New Brunswick area for the first time, a program which he helped design, deliver and implement. The experience saw him develop a great appreciation for the impact that technology could have on learning, and how it could influence and change curriculum delivery. The impact of technology in learning quickly became a great passion for Jacques and he has championed the role it plays ever since, describing it as a linchpin for taking education in the right direction.

Now based in Montreal, he continues to work in the education world supporting French-speaking teachers, leaders, and staff in Canada to develop their skill-set and take on the curriculum in the 21st Century.

“I am extremely passionate about learning in today's world and I’m convinced of the powerful lever that technology is in education, in every classroom across the globe. I’m committed to playing my part in shifting and transforming education, now is the time - so many schools and organizations are looking for assistance to take small, isolated pockets of change and create a whole institution-wide shift. I want to be part of that shift, to be part of the movement that will shape the future of learning, and to do it alongside NoTosh.”

Sarah Kingstone

Associate Consultant, Vancouver Island

Sarah Kingstone knows the positive impact that proper support networks and process can have on those who work at the forefront of change, forging the way for future generations.

A seasoned traveller, classroom teacher, and history enthusiast, Sarah has built a substantial reputation as an active voice in the pursuit of social justice and improvement and implementation of policy and process within education, completing her MSc in Education, Public Policy, and Equity at the University of Glasgow.

“Working with NoTosh offers an incredible opportunity to work in different environments with a strong common thread - that of supporting people in adjusting and adapting their mindset while they embark on a journey of program redesign.

I am passionate about creating the kind of change that creates lasting impact while remaining viable and specific to those involved. The empathy for process and pain that often comes hand in hand with implementing change, along with the objective stance that NoTosh embodies, is exactly the kind of approach that supports said change.

As we look forward I am extremely excited to share my knowledge and expertise with clients across Canada and further afield and to ensure that the bigger picture continues to be studied to support the creation of sustainable, systematic change. “

Donna Hudgeon

Consultant, Bonaire

Donna Hudgeon has over 30 years’ global experience in a wide range of industries. Originally trained as an engineer, Donna knows what it means to learn something new every day AND to quickly apply those new skills and associated knowledge in high pressure, time-sensitive situations.

Donna is passionate about innovation and training, always pushing boundaries whether by launching start ups, running businesses, or heading up an R&D department. As a NoTosh Associate Consultant, Donna applies this drive along with her knowledge, skills and experience to help shape education, industry, training and development through the NoTosh Design Thinking Process.

Donna brings with her a wealth of global experience. Born in Canada, she has lived and worked all over the world, from New Zealand, to Turkey, now residing in Bonaire. She looks forward to engaging and interacting with NoTosh’s unique worldwide clients.

“Working with NoTosh means that I can offer my experience and expertise to a wide audience, challenge the traditional industry stereotypes, and help develop training and development programs for students and adults alike, across the globe.”

Adriana Delgado

Consultant, Mexico

Adriana has honed her skills as an educator in school classrooms, higher education and school leadership positions. But she also has a background in design, international relations and the textiles business that gives her unique insights when it comes to problem-shaping and problem-solving. In her native Mexico, she has led the implementation of innovative projects that put design thinking, creativity and personalisation at the heart of learning in schools.

Adriana, as an Associate with NoTosh since early 2017, continues to make a difference every day in her work to shape and change Mexican schools’ approach to change, while fueling innovations in sectors as diverse as the hotel and toy manufacturing industries.

Robert Storrie

Consultant, Sydney

Rob Storrie is a teacher inspiring learners in outdoor learning, technology and how we teach better every day. He knows how beneficial different kinds of learning and development opportunities can be for learners of all ages. A former Outdoor Education teacher, Rob made the transition to the classroom more than a decade ago after further realising his joy of working with young people and witnessing their development of confidence and skill-set.

Rob’s interest in the whole package - beyond just kids getting great grades - along with his experience in Outdoor Learning, have seen him take on a number of additional roles as part of his teaching career. He’s been the Welfare Co-ordinator in a school and a technology coach. This last role paved the way for Rob to implement new technologies across his school, working closely with fellow teachers to take big new ideas off the drawing board and into action.

Unsurprisingly, Rob sees school as something much bigger than the classroom and that all kinds of opportunities should be available to students through outdoor learning and the harnessing of technology:

“Learning is a global activity and classrooms should reflect this. There really aren’t any ‘walls’ in our classrooms with technology offering us many tools and options for learning and development. Happy kids learn, so why wouldn’t we want to keep them engaged and provide them with the chance to experience the world, even if it is just from their desk.”

Joanna Moult

Editor & Publisher, London

With a solid track record in children’s and teen publishing, Joanna joined NoTosh in 2013 with a specific remit to source new writing and speaking talent from educators, authors and creative thinkers around the world. Acting as a sounding board for new ideas and thoughts, Joanna guides our new authors through the publishing process, delivering fantastic books about learning, creativity and design thinking in electronic and paper format.

“From the word go, my passion was firing children’s imaginations and opening their eyes to new ideas through books – a passion that aligned perfectly with NoTosh’s ethos of enhancing rich and creative learning by looking at the world from new perspectives!

Before joining NoTosh, I spent five years editing fiction for younger children and teenagers at Hodder Children’s Books and in 2005 I joined Simon & Schuster UK to run their Children’s Editorial Department as Senior Commissioning Editor before moving to Mulcaby Conway Associates as Editorial Director for Children’s Books. I still work as a freelance editor today and recently co-found Skylark Literary – an agency designed to discover tomorrow’s great authors for children’s fiction.”